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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-04-21
The Finest and Best Appoint
ed Hotel in the West.
Fitted up with All the Late
Hotel Improvements.
Four Story Brick, and in the
Liveliest Town in the
West,

This hotel is now completed and ready
for occupancy. 1t lisa four story, 50xSO,
and fitted up with all the latest hotel inn
provements and appliances, electric bell
system, etc. The hotel is now ready for
RENT. and propositions will be received
for its rental either furnished or unfur-
nished. Hotel men will find it to their
advantage to figure upon this hotel. Ad-
dress all communications to E. A. Hall.
care of First National Bank, Colby, Kas.
The Life of the flesh is the blood
thereof" pure blood means healthy func
tional activity and this bears with it the
certainty of quick restoration from sick
ness or accident Dr.. j. III. Mclean s
Strengthening Cordial and Blood Puri.
fer gives pure rich blood, and vltalizes
and strengthens the whole body. $1.OO
per bottle.
Keeping the bowels open and regular
is one OF the greatest secrets of human
health. People are seldom sick when
their bowels are regular. They are sell
dom well when they are irregular. When
physic is necessary, st. Patrick's Pills
will be found to be all that can be desir-
ed. They regulate the bowels and liver.
and cleanse the entire system. Sold nv
Walker & Yousse.
Life will acquire new zest, and cheer.
fulness return, if you will impel vour
liver and kidneys to the performance of
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-04-21

! " Hutchinson Before Nj. Adams q JUS
VS. }tice of the Peace OF Morgan
". C. Pinnell } township Thomas CO. Kan.
the aSfh day OF March. 1887. he was sued and
thaf 4 Rarnishment summons for the sum OF
MN dollars was issued BY the above named
Justice Of the Peace against MS money Sno
or0sis On the above entitled action and thai
"a coQse win be heard on the 18Th DAY o.
NJ ~ J.W. HUTCHINSON.
xttest Il. J. ADAMS. Justice Of Peoce. %
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-04-21

Life will acquire new zest, and cheer
fulness return, if you will impel your
liver and kidneys to the performance of
their functions DR.. j. H. Mclean
Liver and Kidney Balm will Stimulate
them to healthy action. $l.0O per bottle.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-04-21
FRANK PISGREE. Notary Public. Colby, Kani
FRANK PINGREE
Real Estate & Insurance Agent

We have choice farms and Wild lands in Ne
oraaka, also school and decided lands In Thom-
% county, Kansas. Locating done In Thomas
and Sheridan counties promptly and accu-
rately.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26
COME BACK TO THE RULE OF
OUR FATHERS.

Our farmers are planting less cotton
and tobacco, more grain and grass and
clover. This road if followed will
lead back to the good old days and
the good old times Of our fathers.
Let them follow without deviation
turning neither to the right nor left,
until they shall be able to pay cash for
what they buy. Pay the merchant
cash-he car then buy his goods
cheaper and sell them cheaper.
Let him keep only his cash
book, and he will not be forced to
charge you a long and ruinous profit
on what you buy, in order that he
may save himself in the bad accounts
he had made with your neighbor, who
cannot, or who will not pay him. Pay
cash and keep your neck out from
under the calling, slavish yoke Of
liens and mortgages-pay cash and
save the enormous interest which you
pay in profts-pay cash and be indie
pendent. -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26

escaped pretty well because thew OF
through their work quickly, and tins
avoided the worry and loss inflicted
on others.
But there are other ADVANTAGES -
the use of machinery not, of a. moror
character, but quite as important, T.
is a fact that nine out of ten of or,
farmers in the busy seasons of tho
year are worked too hard. Tbe;r
crops demand all their time. From
lay light till dark they are on the run
to keep up with their work, which
very often gets ahead of them with all
their running. They have little time
for rest, none for recreation. No
time for social intercourse with neiob
bors, scarcely any to be'social with the
family circle, and they too, are worked
about as hard as he is, The mother
has to look after household affairs
care for the extra hands that a rush
of work makes necessary, while the
boys and girls have frequently to take
the place of hands in the fields. Ma.
chinery that expedites work would
obviate much Of this and make it easier
and much more pleasant for all, giving
more hours for rest, fewer for labor,
more time for thought, for reading,
for study, for experimenting, for
planning, for improving, building,
making manures, &c. &C., for all of
which the farmer who farms after the
old methods has but little time, if he
has the inclination. Improved ma,
chinery is the farmers friend, and the
farmer who would keep up with the
procession in this day of rapid work
and strong competition must avail
| himself of it's assistance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26
GUILFORD COUNTY FARMERS
INSTITUTE.

Unable to be present at the Institute
the first day (Fridy, the 2Oth) we are
fortunate in being able to appropriate,
for the benefit of our readers, the ex-
cellently written report of the days
work, for the Neus and Observer, by
MI. P. M. Wilson:
"There was a good crowd in Benbow
Hall at an early hour, and DR.. D. Reid
Parker was on hand. He is alwas on
hand at the right time and keeps his
watch five minutes ahead of time to
keep from getting left. It will be a
breezy day when he gets left.
The first speaker was DR.. III. T.
3ahnson, Of Salem. He came with an
excellent speech On dairy cattle and
With experience to give his subject a
ocal and Immediate interest. To illus
rate it he had a quantity 81, beautiful
ich milk from his Guernsey cows,
aat was almost sixty per cent cream.
Mr.. W. G.. Barbee followed in an
Exceedingly practical and valuable pa
er on sheep raising as an auxiliary to
lie farm. Mr.. Barbee keeps a flock
sixty sheep and has the largest and
,ttest lambs and gets them to market
st. He wear the evidence of his
18th in a beautiful suit Of brown home.
lun, grown, spun, woven, cut and
AIDE on his own farm.
Mr.. Henry Fries made an able
'eech on the necessity for and advant-
res Of, agricultural and mechanical
hools, and interested the audience
ON his first words to the close.
DR.. Dabney followed in a strong re
lew of our old system of farming and
he improvements that had been made
and could be made, comparing the old
and newer systems Of fertilizing soils
and crops. if.
The afternoon session was full OF
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26

not attractive to others than farmers,
but it is an encouraging and gratifying
fact that merchants, lawyers, physi-
clans, ministers, railroad men and ed
ucators. were present throughout the
session, and seemed deeply interested.
"Punctuality is the life of business
sayssDr. Parker, and he believes it, or
at least he makesrall feel that he does.
DR.. Bahnson, owner as he is Of some
of the finest Guernsey cattle in the
South, could well afford to leave even
his large practice and come, at the re-
quest of the managers, to tell about
them. Several young men are impa-
tient and anxious for the Agricultural
College to open, as they are deter
mined to 60 to it. It was a kindly
act of DR.. Benbow to give the use OF
his commodious hall for the use of the
Institute, and it was appreciated. The
Black Diamond .Quartette awakened
pleasant memories of the olden times
by the splendid rendering OF the old
plantation melodies and glee:songs.
MI. Cameron, of Stagsville, a deeply
interested visitor, says that Durham
must have an Institute this summer.
A large number of ladies were present
all the while, and evinced unflagging
interest to the end. An observant
citizen of Greensboro said: ~ think
the meeting has been a profitable one,
and will make it's impress on the whole
county," Another said: eff nothing
else had been accomplished, the organ
ization of the County Club will richly
repay for all our time and trouble"
For the many and fattering notices
of the PROGRESSIVE FARMER during the
session, and for the handsome list of
subscribers obtained, we tender our
most grateful Acknowledgements.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26
SUBSCRIBERS, READ THIS.

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lest and easiest method of informing our
patrons that their terms Of subscription
have expired, and that the paper will be
stopped if we do not hear from you. We
know "times are hard" on every
body, and especially is this true of
newspapers, and particularly agri-
cultural papers. But we must help
each other as best we can. If, therefore,
you are not prepared to renew for the
avhoze year, renew for a part of the time,
and this will enable you to have time to
make us up a club, for which you will get
the paper one year free of charge. So if
you see the Cross Mark, let us hear from
you.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26
FARM MACHINERY.

Every farmer who can, ought to
himself with the best machinery
he can find for the crops he cultivates.'
To work such machinery to advantage,
his fields must be free from obstruc-
tions, such as stumps, stones, &C., and
also Of all unnecessary fences. Such
machinery possesses more than a mere
dollar and cent value, for it relieves
the farmer from much of the drudgery
that without it he is compelled to per-
form, There are periods in the crop
seasons when time becomes very valu-
able, and when a1few days may save
or lose a crop. Too much rain, for
instance, may give the grass and weeds
Isuch a roothold as to choke a field of
corn, cotton, tobacco, &C., before they
have had'a chance to get a fair start,
III THE farmer has to depend upon the
pillow and the hoe to clean the land.
With a good cultivator upon which
the man rides, ten Or twelve acres
may be. easily and we'll worked in a
day, and the grass and weeds be kept
in subsection with little labor. So in
the harvest season: when the crop is
;ripening rapidly, and desirable labor
is hard to procure at any price, with
a self binding harvester a huge field
Of wheat Or oats may be gut and
securely laid away in little time and
at much less expense than by the old
methods. Last year, in the midst of
the grain harvest, heavy and pro-
tracted rains not only delayed work,
but did much damage to the cut and
uncut crops Those of our farmers
who were supplied with ;reapers
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26
MISCHIEVOUS CUT-WORMS

Some Of them ascend trees, shrubs
and other plants in their destructive
work, while most of them confne their
operations to the surface, and work
their mischief by cutting off young
and tender plants even with the ground.
Their work is done at night, and, as
daylight approaches, they hide them:
selves in holes in the ground. Cabbage,
when first set out, and lettuce and
other plants of the garden, up to
squashes and other plants, of the farm,
are attacked by them. Growing musk
melons and watermelons for Northern
markets, is now an important industry
in the Southern States, especially
within easy reach ofTithe shipping
ports, some hundreds of acres beng
occupied by watermelons alone. Ihe
grower of melons, as well as Of cab
Ibages, ETC., finds that his greatest Oh,
stacle to success is in the attacks OF
cut-worms. Various devices have
been proposed'to ward off their attacks
but among these, none appears to be
so sensible, or SO effective, as that de.
vised by Doctor A. Oemler, author OF
Truck Farming for the South
Doctor Oemler kills off the cut-worms
before the plants appear. Upon his 5
watermelon fields he sets poison traps
at about fifteen feet part each way
These traps are cabbage or turnlp
leaves, which have been moistened on
the concave side, and then busted with
a mixture of Paris-green with twenty
parts of -four. These leaves are
placed over the fields, poisoned sac
down, at the distances above stated
before the plants appear.-Amer'c0"
Agracuharsst.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26

and take counsel together, wlth.a view
to- discover, if possible, what Is hlnoer-
ing u prosperity, and provide Q a
removal of the cause Of depression, or
a remedy for the evils. We are anx-
ious to secure the cordial cooperation
and active participation OF the patrl-
otto friends of agriculture throughout
the ten States named in the call"
The plan of representation in the
Convention, adopted by the Confer
ench, was to have one. delegate from
each county in each of the States, to
be appointed by the Governor and
Commissioner of Agriculture of their
respective States. This would entitle
our State to 81 delegates, including
the member on Report and Programme.
We are gratified to learn. that Gov.
Scales and Commissioner Robinson
have taken hold Of the matter in earnest
and will, cooperate heartily in this i'm
portant movement. We are informed
that the appointment of delegates for
the whole State, will be made and pub
Ilished as soon as practicable. These
Officials. as must all intelligent citizens
Of the South, regard this movement as
fraught with great practical results for
the improvement of the farmers of the
South. We trust and believe that our
State will be largely and ably repre-
sented.
The farmers of our State, in Con.
vention on the 26th Of January last,
anticipated this movement, and upon
motion of j. s. Reid, of Mecklenburg,
it adopted resolutions unanimously,
strongly urging a Convention of the
farmers of all the cotton States. We
congratulate our farmers that their ex-
pressed wish is so soon to be consum-
ated>and that there is such unanimity
of sentiment throughout the whole
South on a question of such vital in
terest to them. We hazard nothing
in predicting that this Convention will
be a strong body of brainy men and
that it's work will have an important
bearing on the industrial interests of
the Southern States. We feel assured
that the Governor will exercise his
best judgment in selecting delegates
to represent u State, and we hope
that every county will be we'll repre-
sented. If any one appointed cannot
go, it would be we'll for him to notify
the Governor promptly and suggest
the name of a good man who can go.
North Carolina must not fall behind
in any movement which has for it's
object the advancement of our great
agricultural interests. We will pnb-
lish the list>when completed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26
THE FARMERS INTERSTATE
-J/ CONVENTION.

Our readers are aware that at the
suggestion of Hon. J. T. Henderson,
Commissioner Of Agriculture of Geor-
gia, a preliminary meeting over which
Gov. Gordon presided, was held in
Atlanta on April 18th to consider the
expediency of calling a convention of
the farmers of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, louisiana, Texas
and Arkansas. It was decided to hold
such convention in the cityof Atlanta,
beginning on the 10th of August. 1t
was agreed that a committee to con-
sist of one from each of the States
named, should be appointed by the
President Of the Conference, after
consultation with the Governor of
each of these States, whose duty
should abe to prepare a thorough and.
well-considered report upon the coYf
dition of agriculture in the cottbn
States; the causes of the presentde-
preston, and the remedies, with a
proper programme as a guide to the
more satisfactory deliberations of the
said convention"
This Committee on Report and
Programme, is nov complete except
as to the States of South Carolina,
Alabama and Mississippi, and is
composed as follows:
On Report and Programme.-Sam1
Barnett, Of Washington, Ga.,,dChair-
man DR.. C. Nv. Macune, Cameron,
Texasi Maj. B. B. Bellamy,, Month
cello, Fla; Hon. Jos. L.. Brent, New
River, La; r. M. Hord, Commissioner
of Agriculture Of Tenn, Nashville,
Tenn. Hon. M. r. Locke, Of Alma,
ARK; Col. L. L. Polk, Of Raleigh N. C.
The Executive Committee consists
of: Gov. j. B. Gordon, Chairman j.
IT. Henderson, Commissioner Of Aggri-
culture /; L. F. Livingston, President
State Agricultural Society; Mark A.
johnson, Col. R. j.; Redding ". S:
DeWolf, Secretary.~# ~ :=5.
In a private letter. just received
from Hon. J. T. Henderson, in refer
ence to the proposed convention, he
says: " as~ iG >m 4:
"No special linesof policy has been
marked out or indicated, for~the con-
vention nor is it in contemplation, SO
far as I know, to commit the body to
the views held by either O the two
great political parties Of the country,
on the subject of the Revenue and
Tariff Protection. The movers in the
scheme feel that representative farm
ers of the cotton. States ought to meet
$500 ttsi .tI III - : =
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26
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to do this puts US to a great deal of trouble
and the necessity of going through a long
list of names, involving no only much
work, but much loss of time, when time
is valuable
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ENDORSED BY THE CONVEN-
TON.

The following resolution was passed by
the Farmers Mass Convention in Raleigh,
January 18th, 1887:
ResolUed, That THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, pub.
lished by L. I. Polk, Winston. N. c., be declared
the Official Organ of the North Carolina Farmers
Association, and that its Editor, L. L. Polk, be ad'
mitted to the privileges of the floor as an honorary
member of this Convention.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26

H-We ask every Grange and Farm
ers' Club in the State to send us at once,
the number of members in the organiza-
ton, together with the name and post
Office address of each officer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
A State Sold for 100000.

Only seventy years ago large portion
of the territory comprising the State of
Wisconsin, with section Of Minnesota,
was sold for $10O,000 and the deed is
recorded in the New York Registers of
fee. The sale was made by Samuel Pc
tcrs to syndicate, for there were syndl-
Gates in those days as well as in this. The
sale was made in January, 1917, and the
syndicate was composed of Lewis Ayres
and nincty-nine others. 1t is described
as large tract of land in the northwest
ern territory, containing 5000, 900 acres
and more. 1t comprised the greater por-
ton of the land sold in 1867 to Jonathan
Carver by the Nandowessies tribe of In
dians. Carver received 100000 acres.
The description is as follows: Running
from the Falls of St. Anthony from the
east bank of the Mississippi nearly east as
far as the south end of Lake Pepin, where
the Chippewa River joins the Mississippi;
and from thence eastward five days trav-
el, accounting twenty English miles per
day; and thence north six days travel at
twenty English miles per day, and from
thence again to the Falls of st. Anthony.
There is reserved tc the Indians the sole
right to fish and hunt on unimproved
land. There is population of 1,315,-
407 in Wisconsin at this date, and the
value of the farm products is $277, 716,-
1876. -Chicdgo Wc1uld.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
A Rabbit Whips q Big Snake.

The keeper of Springdale Cemetery,
just north Of Peoria, ILL.,, while attending
t the graves the other day, was attracted
by the strange antics of rabbit. 1t
seemed to be jumping up in the air and
acting altogether in crazy manner. Pro-
ceeding to the spot, he saw that the rab-
bit was giving battle to a black snake
about five feet in length. The rabbit had
a nest near by, and in it were its two
young. The serpent was several feet
from the nest, and as it tried to approach,
the rabbit would jump directly on the
snake, biting it near the head, and then
Jump back before the black sEake could
get it in it's coil. When the snake showed
a disposition to remain coiled, the rabbit
would make feint and get it to strike,
and then, quick as lightning would jump
on the snakes body. The rabbit had ap-
parently lost all fear of the presence of
man, as the witness of the strange battle
stood within few feet Of it. After a
few minutes the snake made up its mind
to get away badly worsted, and found
safety in brush pile into which the rab-
bit could not penetrate, although it made
efforts to do so. 1t is the opinion of the
keeper that if the fight had occurred in
the open ground, where the snake could
not have sought concealment, the rabbit
would have killed it.-Chicago Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Cleverness is sort of genius for in-
strumentality. 1t is the brain Of the
hand.
Judged by profession, there are no
sinners, and judged by practice there are
no saints.
Modesty and the dew love the shade.
Each shine in the open day only to be
exhaled in heaven. ~
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon, and the deepet
it sinks into, the mind.
He whose only claim to the title gen
tleman" is in his clothes, must necessarily
be careful as to what he wears.
Costly followers are not to be liked;
lest while q man makcth his train
longer, he makes his wings shorter.
The wise prove, and the foolish con-
fess, by their conduct, that life of enl-
ployment is the only life worth living.
Reason and kindness are the great pro-
moters of that harmony and hilarity
which generate friendship and affection.
The aspirations of the race for further
and higher development nerve the arm
which strikes down the barriers OF an
ignorant past.
Nothing but the right can ever be ex-
pedient, since that can never be true ex.
pediency which would sacrifice greater
good to less.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
Where They were Born.

Some time after the war General Crit
tenden met three ex-Confederate officers
at dinner, and they became very friendly.
"Major," said General Crittenden to
one of them, "where were you born?"
"Well,' said the Major, getting little
red, 81 was born, sir, in Nantucket,
Mass, but you see I lived ten years in
the South and married Southern lady,
and, as all my interests were in the South.
of course fought for them"
"And where were you bornl" he asked
the second.
"Well, sir, I was born in Nantucket,
Mass, but I'd lived in the South twenty
years, and of coursc--"
'I see" said the General, turning to
the third. "Coloncl, where were you
born?"
"I was born in Nantucket. Mass, too,
but Id been thirty years in the South,
and"
"That's curious, isn't it,"
"Tcll me, Gcneral,' said one of them,
"whcrc were you born?'
"Wcll, I was born in Huntwell. Ala,
but lived in the North for many years,
and fought for the Union. San Fran
cisco Chronicle
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
Nickel,

Nickel is an elementary metal. 1t was
first obtained rs metal about 1751 in
Germany. But the ore had been long
known TO miners, who called it Kupfer
nickel, or Old Nick's copper, because
though it looked like copper ore, no cop
per could be obtained from it. When
pure, nickel is silvery white, and does
not oxidize or tarnish in the air. 1t can
easily be hammered out into thin sheets
or drawn into wire; it is stronger than
iron, and almost as hard to melt. Its
chief use is for plating other metals, as
it gives them beautiful, silverlike sur
face which is quite easily kept from rust
ing. 1t is also used in alloys. German
silver is made by taking one part nickel,
one part zinc, and two parts copper.
Our five and three cent pieces are made
of three parts copper and one part nickel.
Nickel is found in many parts of the
world, but the principal mines are in
Russia, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Eng
land and Srotland. In this country it is
found in the States OF Pennsylvania and
Connecticut. Inter- Ocean.